AI Art, have you tried it.

[CandideO]

Hiya, I've been seeing some very beautiful AI art recently on Instagram and thinking of buying some as a framed print. Has anyone bought any AI art prints? What was your experience in terms of quality, delivery, and overall satisfaction? Are there any particular artists or websites you would recommend? Thanks!"

AI art isn't real art.

Find a human artist and support them instead.

It's not art. It's the preserve of wannabes who don't care if people end up with 6 fingers and 40 teeth.

I've found some artwork that I think looks great or the least interesting.

Again. No, this is taking jobs from real artists. But you don’t care about that, do you?
Why did you revive your thread Hm?

Hello, I'm not sure how AI Art is taking jobs away from 'real artists'. When I buy a painting I like am I taking jobs away from a sculptor or photographer?

The reason I revived the thread is because I am very interested in hearing what other people think.

Your point of view is very clear and i respect it but unless I am mistaken you have no right to dictate what other people post or am I wrong on this point?

That blonde has a weird neck, don't you think?

AI art is trained on the stolen work of real artists which it then regurgitates as if it were original. Without soul or talent. it was interesting... for about 5 minutes.

It has some uses but is taking the jobs away from real artists.

Spend your money where it will count - on real art by real artists.

Boring - those purchasing have a dulled, uninteresting imagination, bad taste and a lack of vision and do not understand art.

Oh, I think the artwork of the blond is done in the style of a painting not photograph. Is what way does the neck look weird to you?

Interesting view point @lokomoko yes, the AI was trained on the existing artwork of the day but then every artist in history from Rembrandt, Picasso, Damien Hirst, etc were influenced and trained on the art before them.

Like all forms of art some people may find it without soul or talent, I still remember the comments by critics on 'My Bed' by Tracey Emin which sold for $4million or Chris Ofilli's Elephant Dung painting which won the Turner prize, but for others it does have a soul and value.

Guess the real question is what is Art? And who decides?

After all the critics at the time were unimpressed by Van Gogh, one for example "thought that Vincent Van Gogh was not a true artist, and that his work was just a repetition of other works and that there was no new motifs behind his works."

Personally I think the only questions when buying art for the home is "Do I like it/Does it make me feel something/Or think?"...

Would you be able to expand on your thoughts on "Boring - those purchasing have a dulled, uninteresting imagination, bad taste and a lack of vision and do not understand art."? It seems AI Art is eliciting some strong emotions which is in a way one of the purposes of Art...

It looks like it's made of rubber.

@PickAChew Ok, not sure I see the same thing, to me the neck shows natural lines which are a normal part of aging but fair enough.

@CandideO do you stand to make money from flogging AI art?

As an artist I have zero respect for consumer who spends their money on AI made pieces. They have no respect for real art or artists and no real understanding of the true creative process. Philistines.

@lokomoko I don't agree with having zero respect for someone just because they choose not to buy from you or who you have decided are 'real artists' but I respect your right to your opinion. I for one have seen some AI Art pieces I love with and will be buying them.

Buying AI art is disgusting. Bad enough it spits out uncanny valley versions of actual artists' work, but people are actually selling this stuff and profiting off it? So sad.

As I saw someone else mention elsewhere, we thought the robots would help us with the hard things in life, not replace us as artists and writers and make jobs obsolete.

OP, all that controversial art you mention was done by human beings so I think you might be missing the central point.

Robots and AI were supposed to be designed to do the monotonous tasks so we humans can all become creators, not the other way round.

It's just wrong. Absolutely we should use AI to formulate the cure for whatever disease, but I don't think AI should be used to put artists out of business.

AI is being used to replace voice over artists, we have hologram musicians, this glut of artwork, also music creation.

@LolaJ87 Hi, photography didn't replace paintings even though the exact same things you are saying about AI Art were said about photography. Instead the advent of photography led to painters developing new art movements which we all love today, while the more traditional styles are still very much thriving today.

I think AI artwork will push for a renaissance in human produced art which I'm quite excited about.

... and like @Keepingcosy said, photography was done by human beings. Taking people out of creative work is just not good. I'm glad to see such a large consensus on this in the thread.

Maybe AI art is ok in certain contexts, things like a work presentation where you're just jazzing something up, but actual art? Nah.

@lokomoko Hi, I have looked into this and would agree if a machine was simply generating random artwork however the AI Artists have a great deal of creative input and the AI is simply a tool, like any other, for the expression of their creativity.

@CandideO I don't care if you don't buy from me specifically. However I will form a judgement (right or wrong) about your personal taste and morals for buying AI art. Obviously I will never tell you what you can or can't do though! What is sad is that you could be supporting real life artists and photographers who need to make a living. The same ones that have had their work scraped and stolen by AI algorithms and are losing work as a result. I also think AI art is tasteless and tacky by its very nature. But you do you, of course.

I do believe there's a place for AI though and understand it's helpful within certain contexts e.g. quickly checking work for errors, generating content quickly to save time within certain contexts, medical world and so on. I'm just opposed to it within the artistic realm.

Do you personally make money from AI art or are you planning to, by the way?

@Cappugcino Yes, completely agree. I'm excited to see what new ways artists respond to the new creative renaissance.

It's almost at if this thread was created by a bot...

Does nobody realise that a lot of AI art is created by "real life" artists and photographers? Working at an arts university, more and more artists are utilising AI in their practice. And often it's not as simple as generating one quick artwork and being done with it: so much time is spent working with various AI models, adjusting prompts, etc. So it's really not as simple as saying AI art is taking jobs away from creatives.

AI art isn't simply appearing out of the ether! Somebody (a human) is generating the work from prompts. If you don't think of yourself as an artist, but drew or painted a picture of your garden that you quite liked and decided to put it on the wall, are you taking away jobs from real artists? No. So what difference is there to fuelling your creativity into prompts which are then worked on by an AI?